17-04-2002 20:31									#91
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I left Vancouver one year and arrive in Hong Kong the next year, but never experienced the change at midnight from one year to the next. Why?

	17-04-2002 20:47									#92
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Is it true that if you choose to settle in Svalbard, you need a psychological certificate proving you don't have any mental problems, since it's completely dark half the year?

	17-04-2002 22:02									#93
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quote: I left Vancouver one year and arrive in Hong Kong the next year, but never experienced the change at midnight from one year to the next. Why?

You were asleep

	17-04-2002 23:07									#94
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quote: Originally posted by Immortal Wombat You were asleep

A reasonable answer, but no I did not sleep through midnight.

	17-04-2002 23:31									#95
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quote: Originally posted by Tingkai I left Vancouver one year and arrive in Hong Kong the next year, but never experienced the change at midnight from one year to the next. Why?

You crossed the Int. Date Line. But I don't think that sort of thing is quite what the thread's designed for.

Unless you were genuinely confused.

	17-04-2002 23:33									#96
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quote: Originally posted by Tingkai I left Vancouver one year and arrive in Hong Kong the next year, but never experienced the change at midnight from one year to the next. Why?

You crossed the international date line during your flight. Left Vancouver before the new year arrived and landed in Hong Kong after they had already switched over. I think...

	17-04-2002 23:34									#97
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What is a mojo man?

	17-04-2002 23:56									#98
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Austin Powers' sex-drive, man

	20-04-2002 06:56									#99
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That question always kills threads.

	20-04-2002 09:27									#100
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I have a trivial question.

Why do men have adam's apple, but women do not have one??

	20-04-2002 09:36									#101
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Adam's apple protects windpipe from crushing if struck. Because of behavioural attrributes male primates tend to be in more danger of this happening (both hunting and fighting) than females.

	20-04-2002 09:47									#102
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quote: Originally posted by KrazyHorse Adam's apple protects windpipe from crushing if struck. Because of behavioural attrributes male primates tend to be in more danger of this happening (both hunting and fighting) than females.

WTF???

Are you serious with your claim??
That this specific, potential for aggressive behavior triggered this kind of biological evolution??

interesting, if true

	20-04-2002 09:54									#103
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I recall reading that the function of the Adam's apple was defensive. The rest was speculation, but rather well-founded IMO. Why do you think men's bones and skin are 25% (?) thicker, their muscle mass is higher, etc.?

We don't have it as much as some species. IIRC, orangutans are truly sexually dimorphic; their females are only half the size of their males.

	21-04-2002 17:56									#104
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Why do Ni-Cad batteries get a "memory"? In other words, if you charge a Ni-Cad before it's fully flat, why does it (eventually) not use the last bit of it's power?

	21-04-2002 18:21									#105
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Free Marketeers: Why is it wrong for the government to regulate the quality and quantity of things produced, but right to have regulations to stop cartels and monopolies building up?

	21-04-2002 21:45									#106
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Markets with a predominant cartel or monopoly are not free markets.

	04-05-2002 03:54									#107
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How do you calculate the length of a function, given two limits? With a linear one, the solution is trivial, but with a non-linear such?

I was thinking something like, for x³ for instance, a basic integral with x³ as upper function and x³ - a as lower, where a lim--->0.

I'm sure there are "real" ways to do this, though.

	04-05-2002 04:10									#108
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A little bit scribbling, referring to lengths of complex paths, I am reasonably convinced that this is correct:

Given a function f(x), xÎ[a,b], the length of the function is Integral(a->b){sqrt(1+[f'(x)]^2)}dx

If that's not legible, let me know.

	04-05-2002 04:13									#109
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Bugs: According to my Collins Consise Dictionary which I got practically free when I bought Stupid White Men, Dissapoint originally meant, just like someone suggested, to remove someone from office. Obviously this would leave them Dissapointed, at least in the sense that their plans had been frustrated. Disgruntle comes from the old verb "gruntle", to complain. A disgruntled person, then would be someone who's gruntles were not acknowledged.

	04-05-2002 05:57									#110
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My hard qusetion is
what does 2+2 =
( well its as important as your questions )
hahahaha

	04-05-2002 05:59									#111
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quote: Free Marketeers: Why is it wrong for the government to regulate the quality and quantity of things produced, but right to have regulations to stop cartels and monopolies building up?

Depending on which free marketers you talk to, the answer might be that the only monopolies which are a problem are those which are created by regulations (such as the laws which forbid anyone but the Post Office from delivering mail). If a company attains a monopoly position in a truly free-market context, the only way they'll keep it is to keep doing what made them successful in the first place. If they slack off, competition will arise as long as it isn't hindered by force.

Notice: I will not respond in this thread to any attempts to debate this point. Start another one on the subject and I'll probably be there.

	04-05-2002 06:58									#112
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quote: A little bit scribbling, referring to lengths of complex paths, I am reasonably convinced that this is correct: Given a function f(x), xÎ[a,b], the length of the function is Integral(a->b){sqrt(1+[f'(x)]^2)}dx If that's not legible, let me know.

Well, often there's a better parameterization of a function than (t, f(t)). It's better to think of the path length as an integral over the path of ||ds||, where s is the path.

	04-05-2002 07:24									#113
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quote: Originally posted by Chowlett A little bit scribbling, referring to lengths of complex paths, I am reasonably convinced that this is correct: Given a function f(x), xÎ[a,b], the length of the function is Integral(a->b){sqrt(1+[f'(x)]^2)}dx If that's not legible, let me know.

Known as "arclength", good only for functions for which f'(x) is integrable over [a,b]. No need for it to be continuous.

	04-05-2002 12:01									#114
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Re the SNES: 'cause the SNES had a great sound board for its day, and Nintendo was a bit lazy with the N64 which also has a slightly different sound set. The PSX both had its own (very good) MIDI as well as capability for digital music.

Here's an ancient question: Somebody once asked about inter-galactic travel, literally. MtG said that it never can and never will happen, and there's a boatload of reasons, too many to write down.

Well? Let's hear 'em! My solar-powered ship with all the bodies inside perfectly cryogenically frozen is ready to go! What, by the time it reaches the other galaxy will the universe be over or something?

	04-05-2002 17:10									#115
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There's no reason intergalactic travel can't happen. All you need is a cheap way to make tons and tons of antimatter and tech that doesn't break down in ~40 years. Boosting at 1g for that long (1/2 the time decelerating) will get you anywhere you want to go, basically. It'll be sorta dangerous, though. With everything length contracted like that you'll have basically no chance of avoiding anything that pops up in front of you. It'll also be one-way, since human beings will almost certainly have disappeared before you get back.

	04-05-2002 17:48									#116
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The bubbles in champagne or in whiskey and coke do not open up your intestine. You'ed be dead in a few hours if that were true.

Why are all the questions about math and physics? And why are there some many people here who know this stuff? Are there masses of astronomers here who are online while waiting for some readings of a far off galaxy?

	04-05-2002 18:35									#117
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Why are dodgy medical doctors called 'quacks'?

	04-05-2002 18:51									#118
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Question the experts :

What is there on titan?

	04-05-2002 19:12									#119
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quote: Originally posted by Sandman Why are dodgy medical doctors called 'quacks'?

IIRC, to "quack" is another word for undeserved boasting (from noise that duck makes?). Medical "quacks" are therefore those who boast of curative abilities they do not possess.

	04-05-2002 20:23									#120
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quote: Originally posted by SnowFire What, by the time it reaches the other galaxy will the universe be over or something?

The nearest other galaxy is 2 million light years away. So intergalactic travel is not going to be quick even if engineering problems are overcome.

I say we are better off waiting for other galaxies, like Andromeda, to come to us.

Talking of which, check this out



And the computer simulation of the colliding galaxies.